Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2007-3719
The process scheduler in the Linux kernel 2.6.16 gives preference to "interactive" processes that perform voluntary sleeps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."
EPSS: 0.003 (23.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.16
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)